Alexandros Takounakis

Alexandros Takounakis first came to attention in the poker world during the 2012 Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City. At a $2/$5 no-limit hold'em cash game, he was one of seven players at the table when a rare bad beat jackpot hit. The hand saw Karoon Monfared's quad threes lose to Ari Nissim's quad fours on a board of 4♦4♥3♥A♠3♣, triggering the small bad beat jackpot. Each of the seven players at the table, including Takounakis, received $2,857 from the $20,000 pool distributed among them.

Beyond the poker tables, Alexandros Takounakis has built a long career in technology sales and engineering. According to his LinkedIn profile, he currently serves as a DoD Sales Engineer at Sterling, a position he has held since November 2022. Previously, he worked as a Senior Solutions Architect at Liqid and an Advisory Systems Engineer at Dell Technologies, where he supported US Army customer missions. His expertise spans data center technologies, cloud, virtualization, and DevOps, with over 34 years of total experience.

Publicly available tournament results for Alexandros Takounakis are sparse. Aside from the 2012 Borgata bad beat incident, there are no documented cashes in major live tournaments or online series. It is possible that he plays primarily in cash games or small local events that are not extensively tracked by major poker databases.